How can we look, and not be moved

1
How can we look, and not be moved

by lives that end and eyes that plead,

where parents cry while families part

amid their last despairing need.

2
Once we were distanced from the ones

that suffered while we stood to stare.

God give the gift of empathy

that we might offer more than prayer.

Verses 3-4 follow

Hymn responding to the Ebola crisis.
Tune: BRESLAU; ABENDS

Andrew Pratt (born 1948)
Words © 30/10/2014 Stainer & Bell Ltd, London, England, www.stainer.co.uk.
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